Lynn Fontanne (December 6, 1887 – July 30, 1983) was an Emmy Award winning actress who was a major stage star for over 40 years and who with her husband Alfred Lunt was part of the most acclaimed acting team in the history of the American theater. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Photographic self-portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. ... May 23 is the 143rd day of the year (144th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... Woodford is principally noteworthy for being the birthplace of the founder members of the notorious association who called themselves the Whores Drawers in the 1980s. ... July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 154 days remaining. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Genesee Depot is a small unincorporated community in southeastern Wisconsin, in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, in the town of Genesee, Wisconsin. ... December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 154 days remaining. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Emmy Award. ... Alfred Lunt photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 Alfred Lunt (August 12, 1892–August 3, 1977) was an American actor. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212...

She refused to relinquish her British citizenship, despite having lived in the U.S. for over 60 years, and was a Kennedy Center honoree very late in life. The Kennedy Center as seen from the Potomac River. ...

Acting career

Born Lillie Louise Fontanne in Woodford, United Kingdom. First becoming popular in the title role of George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly's farce, Dulcy, in 1920 she soon became celebrated for her skill as an actress in high comedy, excelling in witty roles written for her by Noel Coward, S. N. Behrman and Robert Sherwood. By contrast, she enjoyed one of the greatest critical successes of her career as Nina Leeds, the desperate heroine of Eugene O'Neill's nine-act drama, Strange Interlude. Woodford is principally noteworthy for being the birthplace of the founder members of the notorious association who called themselves the Whores Drawers in the 1980s. ... George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 - June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, director, producer, humorist, and drama critic noted for his many collaborations with other writers and his contributions to 20th century American comedy. ... Marc Connelly photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Marcus Cook Connelly (December 13, 1890 - December 21, 1980) was a member of the Algonquin roundtable and composed several musicals with playwright George S. Kaufman: 1921 Dulcy 1922 Merton of the Movies 1925 Beggar on Horseback Categories: 1890 births | 1980 deaths ... Noel Coward Sir Noel Peirce Coward (December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973) was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. ... Samuel N. Behrman (born June 9, 1893 in Worcester, Massachusetts — died September 9, 1973 in New York) was a playwright and worked for the New York Times. ... Robert Emmet Sherwood (4 April 1896–14 November 1955) American playwright, editor, and screenwriter. ... Eugene Gladstone ONeill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was a Nobel- and four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. ... Strange Interlude is an experimental play by the great American playwright Eugene ONeill. ...

From the late 1920s on, Fontanne acted exclusively in vehicles also starring her husband. Among their greatest theater triumphs were Design for Living (1933), The Taming of the Shrew (1935-1936), Idiot's Delight (1936), and There Shall Be No Night (1940). The Lunts remained highly active on the stage until retiring in 1960. Design for Living is a black comedy written by Noel Coward which premiered in 1932. ... Taming of the Shrew by Augustus Egg The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ... Idiots Delight is a play by Robert E. Sherwood. ...

Fontanne only made three movies, but nevertheless, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for The Guardsman, losing to the much younger Helen Hayes. She also ippeared in the silent movies Second Youth (1924) and The Man Who Found Himself (1925). The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... The Guardsman is a 1931 movie based on the play Testör by Ferenc Molnar and the play Elizabeth the Queen by Maxwell Anderson. ... Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ...

The Lunts starred in four television productions in the 1950s and 1960s with both Lunt and Fontanne winning an Emmy awards in 1965 for The Magnificent Yankee, becoming the first married couple to win the award for playing a married couple. She also narrated the classic 1960 television production of Peter Pan starring Mary Martin and received a second Emmy nomination for playing Grand Duchess Marie in the Hallmark Hall of Fame telecast of Anastasia in 1967, both rare performances that she did without her husband. An Emmy Award. ... The Magnificent Yankee is a 1951 biographical film which tells the life story of United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. ... Statue of Peter Pan in Bowring Park, St. ... Mary Martin photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) born in Weatherford, Texas was a Tony Award winning American star of (mainly stage) musicals. ... An Emmy Award. ... Hallmark Hall of Fame is the most-honored program in the history of American television. ... Anastasia or Anastacia or Anastatia is a female given name which comes from Koine Greek. ...

The Lunts also starred in several radio dramas in the 1940s, notably on the Theatre Guild program. Many of these broadcasts still survive. The Theatre Guild was a theatrical society founded by Lawrence Langner in New York City in 1918, with the purpose of producing noncommercial american and foreign plays. ...

Personal life

Fontanne's romance with Lunt began in 1920 while he was starring in the play Clarence with Helen Hayes, who had discreetly fallen in love with him. The Lunts were married in 1922. Hayes' remained a lifelong friend of the pair, although many believe she never quite forgave Fontanne for "stealing" Lunt from her, Hayes' 1988 autobiography, published after the Lunts' deaths contains several barbs directed at Fontanne, who supposedly was her friend for decades. The following places are named Clarence: Clarence, Tasmania, Australia - a local government area near Hobart. ... Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years. ...

The Lunts lived for many years in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, but never had children. By all accounts, Lynn Fontanne was among the most duplicitous of actresses regarding her true age. Her husband died believing she was 5 years younger than him (as she had told him), and refused to believe anything to the contrary, although several magazine profiles on the stars reported her true age. She was, in fact, 5 years older, but continued to deny long after Lunt's death that she was born in 1887 (the year now attributed to her birth); she even misreported her year of birth accordingly to the U.S. Social Security Administration. Genesee Depot is a small unincorporated community in southeastern Wisconsin, in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, in the town of Genesee, Wisconsin. ... Waukesha County is a county located in the state of Wisconsin. ... The United States Social Security Administration (or SSA[1]) is an independent agency of the United States government established by a law currently codified at 42 U.S.C. Â§ 901. ...

Asked how to say her name, she told The Literary Digest she preferred the French way, but "If the French is too difficult for American consumption, both syllables should be equally accented, and the a should be more or less broad": fon-tahn. (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.) The Literary Digest was an influential general-interest magazine in the early 20th century United States. ...

Lynn Lunt, as she is known in the Social Security Death Index ([1]) is interred next to her equally famous husband, Alfred Lunt, at the Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Alfred Lunt photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 Alfred Lunt (August 12, 1892–August 3, 1977) was an American actor. ... Landmark Chapel Forest Home Cemetery located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the final resting place of many of the citys famed beer barons, politicians and social elite. ... Nickname: Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Coordinates: County Milwaukee Government  - Mayor Tom Barrett Area  - City  97 sq mi (251. ...

She was survived by a niece.